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Quayle Quotes Last updated July 24, 1992
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Thanks to:
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James Allenspach jima@buhub.bradley.edu
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Ken Tubman dprkmt@arco.com
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David K. Poulsen poulsen@csrd.uiuc.edu
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Subodh Bapat mailrus!uflorida!rm1!bapat@uunet.uu.net
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Tim Dodge dodgeT%moravian.edu@relay.cs.net
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David Ruderman ruderman@sbcs.sunysb.edu
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Ron Dippold rdippold@drzeus.qualcomm.com
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Tim Antonsen antonsen@hpcndaw.CND.HP.COM
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Dave Goldsman sman@zomboy.isye.gatech.edu
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JV Heiskanen jvh@mits.mdata.fi
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Matt Thomas tbirds@atlas.unm.edu
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Matthew Wall wall@cc.swarthmore.edu
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Stephen C. Miller stcmille@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
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Yngve Raustein raustein@athena.mit.edu
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Forrest Cahoon cahoon@cs.umn.edu
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Jeff Frane gummitch@techbook.com
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Michael L. Cole mlcole@nevada.edu
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Lisa Henn lisa@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu
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Eric McCaughrin mccaughe@cad.berkeley.edu
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Daniel Ashlock Danwell@iastate.edu
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Al Clark clark@netcom.com
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Phil Corless apucorle@idbsu.idbsu.edu
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Heather Blair h431@midway.uchicago.edu
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dwhitney@hamp.hampshire.edu
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Dave Stephenson dstephen@cmsa.gmr.com
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Marc Wasserman mwasserm@diana.cair.du.edu
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Jim Summers summers@asylum.cs.utah.edu
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Brian Curran brian@meaddata.com
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D. Alex Neilson neilson@skat.usc.edu
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Scott Safier corwin+@cmu.edu
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dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
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Sierra Sponaugle sponaugl@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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John Murray dylan@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
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Patricia Bender bender@riscee.pko.dec.com
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Marc Andreessen marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Jerry Cox sasjec@asimov.unx.sas.com
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Jan Peerson peerson@neyman.ucdavis.edu
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Japan Info Soc jis@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
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Rick Zaccone zaccone@rigel.cs.bucknell.edu
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Patrick Pape pape@miller.cs.uwm.edu
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pmk@craycos.com (Peter Klausler)
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Daniel Hinojosa hinojosa@hpwrc07.hp.com
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Julio Vidal vidal@mitvma.mit.edu
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Dave Regan regan@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
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Jim Puccio puccio@media.mit.edu
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Dhanesh Samarasan dks@athena.mit.edu
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and me:
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Mike Goldsman goldsman@cc.gatech.edu
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36004 Gatech Station
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Atlanta, GA 30332
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(404) 894-7302 (w)
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(404) 872-5146 (h)
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Please send me any additions/corrections to this list.
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It seems to be growing faster than I can keep up !!!
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense
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cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle comparing the
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offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact
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with the defensive system of NATO
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Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better
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prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place
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to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to
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defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country
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will eventually go.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit... somewhat the same distance from the
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Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals,
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we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If
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oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is IN
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the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that
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is right here.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle,
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Hawaii, September 1989
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind
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at all. How true that is.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while
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speaking to the United Negro College Fund
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy
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campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you
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will always be.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans,
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whose capital Quayle pronounces "Pogo Pogo"
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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean
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in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't
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live in this century."
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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(The New Yorker, October 10, 1988, p.102)
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We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination
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of human rights.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices
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to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a
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single voice.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and
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democracy - but that could change.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president,
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and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the Phoenix Republican
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Forum, March 1990
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves
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as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Target prices? How that works? I know quite a bit about farm policy.
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I come from Indiana, which is a farm state. Deficiency payments -
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which are the key - that is what gets money into the farmer's hands.
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We got loan, uh, rates, we got target, uh, prices, uh, I have worked
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very closely with my senior colleague, (Indiana Sen.) Richard Lugar,
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making sure that the farmers of Indiana are taken care of.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle on being asked to
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define the term "target prices."
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Quayle's press secretary then cut short the press
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conference, after two minutes and 30 seconds.
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I'm not going to focus on what I have done in the past
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what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people.
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The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I
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have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed
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without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of
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the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP,
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two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in
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Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia.
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Unbelievable.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Actually, Dubcek was the leader of the Prague Spring.
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May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
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-- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card.
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[Not a beacon of literacy, though.]
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Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to
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the collapsed section of the 880 freeway after
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the San Francisco earthquake of 1989.
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[this may be a joke; the source is unclear.
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but it's still funny]
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getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle referring to his legislative
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work dealing with cruise missiles
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I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that
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have had a difficult time.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing workers at
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an Ohio steel plant,1988
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[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy,
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Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bentsen debate
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Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and
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I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different sets of
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situations and I tell you what, I'm not going to go out and hold a news
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conference about it. I'm going to put it in a safe and keep it there! Does
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that answer your question?
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle when asked what he
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would do if he assumed the Presidency (1988)
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Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm
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my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more
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handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to press reports
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his aides having to, in effect, "potty train" him.
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I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in this
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country.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how,
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what a challange it is, because in 1988 the question is
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whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're
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going to go past to the -- to the back!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I have made good judgements in the Past.
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I have made good judgements in the Future.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I have a very strong record on the Environment in the United States Senate.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity,
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family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're
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happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the
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world.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the
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United States!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988
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Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with
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the family. We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the
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definition of the family. [Meaningful pause] A child. [Meaningful pause] A
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mother. [Meaningful pause] A father. There are other arrangements of the
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family, but that is a family and family values.
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I've been very blessed with wonderful parents and a wonderful
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family, and I am proud of my family. Anybody turns to their family. I have
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a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I
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believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in
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our platform, is to talk about it.
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I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we
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want to say thank you. The first would be our family. Your family, my
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family -- which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three
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children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles. We all
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have our family, whichever that may be ... The very beginnings of
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civilization, the very beginnings of this country, goes back to the family.
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And time and time again, I'm often reminded, especially in this
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Presidential campaign, of the importance of a family, and what a family
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means to this country. And so when you pay thanks I suppose the first thing
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that would come to mind would be to thank the Lord for the family.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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...Buzz Lukens took that fateful step...
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle confusing the sexual
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assaulter/congressman with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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Okay, I won't open it until then
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle after having been
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presented with an empty box that was to contain
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a gift from a sailing team in South America.
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He was told that the gift was not ready yet,
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but that it would be presented to him when they
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arrived in the United States.
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During the White House Easter Egg Roll of 1991, Quayle signed autographs
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using only his finger. He had prepared pre-signed cards which his aides
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handed out while he made signing gestures. This allowed him
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to move briskly and efficiently through the crowd, said his spokesman.
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Dan Quayle, in April 1991, was concerned that his advisors
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may be getting out of touch with "Real Americans." In order
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to combat this, he suggested that they read People magazine.
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People that are really very wierd can get into sensative positions
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and have a tremendous impact on history.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was.
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He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective
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we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I would like to express my sympathy to all those impacted by this disaster.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle standing in front
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of the collapsed section of highway caused by the
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Loma Preta quake. (CNN)
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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after the San Francisco earthquake
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, stepping out of
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the helicopter upon arrival at Alameda Naval Air
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Station.
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Let me tell you something. As we were walking around in the store, Marilyn
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and I were just really impressed by all the novelties and the different types
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of little things that you could get for Christmas. And all the people that
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would help you, they were dressed up in things that said 'I believe in Santa
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Claus.' And the only thing that I could think is that I believe in
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George Bush.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle at a garden center and
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produce store in Baltimore (from the Los Angeles Times,
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Douglas Jehl, November 6, 1988)
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It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing,
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so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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remarks to oil spill clean-up workers at Prince
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William Sound, May, 1989
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him
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when I arrive.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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remarks to oil spill clean-up workers at Prince
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William Sound, May, 1989
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the
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impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We
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have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.
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-- Marilyn Quayle
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I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of
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interest.
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--Vice President Dan Quayle, when purchasing a South
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African Indian Doll that, when lifted, displays an erection.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away
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from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and
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there
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle defending himself
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(LA Herald Examiner 10/3/88)
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Public Speaking is very easy.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
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I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I happen to be a Republican president- ah, the vice president.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle (Newsweek 4/9/90)
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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle during the
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VP debate in Omaha, Nebraska (10/88)
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The other day [the President] said, I know you've had some rough times, and I
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want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you,
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in your maturity and sense of responsibility. (He paused, then said) Would you
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like a puppy?
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle (LA Times 5/21/89)
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get- The Future!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle in eastern Illinois
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(LA Times 10/19/88)
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I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting
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season begins at noon.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle to a crowd in Eau Claire, Wisc.
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(LA Times 10/16/88)
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The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle attempting to say the
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SF earthquake wreckage was heart-rending
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(Newsweek 10/30/89)
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very
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close, personal,loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted
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plant in these meetings.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle defending himself
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(Tampa Tribune-Times 1/7/90)
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When I talked to him on the phone yetserday. I called him George rather than
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Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is
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who he is.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle shortly after being named
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Geo. Bush's running mate (8/28/88 the NY Times).
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I'm glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect
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opportunity to talk about the problems with this Congress...
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to reporter's
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questions about his use of Air force 2 to
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go on golf trips at the cost of $26,000/hour
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will,
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never, never surrender to what is right
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle, in a speech
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to the Christian Coalition
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Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the
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World Series
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle encouraging the Milwaukee
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Brewers after throwing out the opening pitch of the
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season. (5/3/92 Sunday Detroit News)
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Are they taking DDT?
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle asking doctors at a Manhattan
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AIDS clinic about their treatments of choice.
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(NY Post, early May 92)
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We are leaders of the world of the space program.
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We have been the leaders of the world of our... of the space program
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and we're not going to continue where we're going to go, not withstanding
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the Soviet Union's demise and collapse - the former Soviet Union - we now
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have independent republics which used to be called the Soviet Union.
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Space is the next frontier to be explored. And we're going to explore.
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Think of all the things we rely upon in space today: communications
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from... Japan, detection of potential ballistic missle attacks. Ballistic
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missles are still here. Other nations do have ballistic missles. How do
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you think we were able to detect some of the Scud missles and things like
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that? Space, reconnaissance, weather, communications - you name it. We
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use space a lot today.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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America is great, because America is free.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they
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aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their
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whole career in public service.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still
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in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had growth;
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people need to know that. They need to be more upbeat, more positive...
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle in October 91
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Need any help?
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle in October 91 addressing
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announced 74,000 layoffs
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The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big
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government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people
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back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle in a handwritten note
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written to Sam Snead in the summer of 1991,
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after they had played a round of golf.
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(Herald-Times, Bloomington, IN, July 15, 1992)
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Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters!
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle giving an intelligent, in-depth
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analysis of the LA riots. (Herb Caen, SF Chronicle)
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It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help
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matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character
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who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today,
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mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone,
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and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is
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probably the best anti-poverty program there is...
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Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the
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national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of
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us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle addressing the
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Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and criticizing
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Murphy Brown's decision to NOT have an abortion
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and to be a single (highly successful) mother.
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When told about Quayle's comments, a senior
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Bush campaign official replied only "Oh, dear."
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Bush's top aid said, "The world is a lot more complex
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than Dan would like to believe"
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I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional
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woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle to The Chron's Jerry Roberts.
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I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle defending his opinions about
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the TV show "Murphy Brown" [Las Vegas RJ 21 May 92]
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The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is
|
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predominantly a poverty of values.
|
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of
|
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not having it.
|
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-- Vice President Dan Quayle
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Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue. Us men are tired
|
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of losing our women
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle talking about
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breast cancer
|
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|
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I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning
|
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to turn around.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle trying to convince reporters
|
||
that the economy was doing better because a
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Burger King had a "now hiring" sign in the window.
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He was campaigning for reelection in Ontario, CA
|
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in January 1992.
|
||
|
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You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle after the manager of the
|
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Burger King had said that the jobs offered were part-time
|
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minimum wage jobs, which didn't pay enough to live on,
|
||
and that "It's hard to find people who want to actually
|
||
show up for the job."
|
||
|
||
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace
|
||
before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/13/91 (CNN)
|
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|
||
We're in Florida.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle explaining why he
|
||
had just purchased four peaches (and no citrus
|
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fruits -- for which Florida is famous) at a Publix
|
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supermarket in Oakland Park, Florida. Georgia (which
|
||
IS famous for peaches) did not gain from the transaction,
|
||
however; the peaches were from Chile. (The Sunstenial)
|
||
|
||
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
||
I feel that this [1981] is my first year, that next year is an
|
||
election year, that the third year is the mid point and that the
|
||
fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the
|
||
last two years, I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those
|
||
last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I
|
||
don't have to do that.
|
||
-- Senator Dan Quayle
|
||
|
||
I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle during a photo-op
|
||
in LA, responding to criticisms that he didn't
|
||
understand what it meant to live in the "inner
|
||
city." (WRAL 6/23/92)
|
||
|
||
My position is that I understand from a medical situation, immediately
|
||
after a rape is reported, that a woman normally, in fact, can go to the
|
||
hospital and have a D and C. At that time... that is before the forming
|
||
of a life. That is not anything to do with abortion
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle explaining that Dilatation
|
||
and Curettage, a form of abortion which occurs
|
||
after fertilization, is not really abortion.
|
||
(the Washington post, 11/03/88)
|
||
|
||
Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled?
|
||
You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle correcting a student's
|
||
correct spelling of the word "potatoe" during
|
||
a spelling bee at an elementary school in Trenton.
|
||
|
||
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But
|
||
as Mark Twain once said, "You should never trust a man who has only
|
||
one way to spell a word."
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, actually quoting from
|
||
President Andrew Jackson.
|
||
|
||
People who Bowl Vote.
|
||
Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle while at a Las Vegas bowling
|
||
alley. the Vice-President bowled 5 times, and knocked
|
||
down 19 pins. (6/25/92, San Jose Mercury News)
|
||
The American Bowling Congress projected his score for a
|
||
full game to be 76. The Detroit average for amateur
|
||
players is 163 (USA Today, 7/6/92)
|
||
|
||
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a
|
||
tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle giving his opinion about
|
||
Ross Perot's presidential campaign (June 1992)
|
||
|
||
Dan Quayle had a trip planned to Beijing, but was worried because of
|
||
Xthe turmoil at that end. His security adviser however informed him that
|
||
Xit was pretty safe for D.Q. as, "They are only harassing intellectuals."
|
||
|
||
And the President put his hand on my shoulder and said: "Dan,
|
||
I _knew_ Spiro Agnew. He was a friend of mine. And Dan...
|
||
You're no Spiro Agnew!"
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
||
This president is going to lead us out of this recovery.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle at a campaign stop in
|
||
California and and then at CA State University, Fresno
|
||
(The Quayle Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1992)
|
||
|
||
We have to do more than just elect a new president if we truly want to
|
||
change this country."
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle
|
||
|
||
We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, September 1990
|
||
|
||
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, September 1990
|
||
|
||
[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was a] stirring victory for the
|
||
forces of aggression.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, April 1991
|
||
|
||
I hope I never have to deal with it. But obviously I would counsel her
|
||
and talk to her and support her on whatever decision she made.
|
||
-- Vice President Dan Quayle respondiing to Larry
|
||
King's question of how he would react if his 13-year-old
|
||
daughter chose to have an abortion. (CNN, July 22, 1992)
|
||
Marilyn Quayle later remarked that her daughter would
|
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"take the child to term."
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